Also called “spaced pair” this is a technique where two stereo microphones are placed anywhere from 3 to 10 feet a part to create a time difference that the brain perceives as a stereo imaging effect. If the resulting acoustic delay is in the range of 1.5 – 1.7 ms, a full stereo panorama image […]

Elastic Audio is a time manipulation processing system in Digidesign Pro Tools. It was introduced in 2007 with Pro Tools 7.4. Elastic Audio (also known as Elastic Time) enables the user to change an audio file’s tempo or timing in real time without altering the file’s pitch, allowing for quick rhythmic or time-based adjustments without […]

Beat Detective is Digidesign Pro Tools’s proprietary means of analyzing, editing and manipulating audio or MIDI material that is rhythmic in nature. Beat Detective overview Beat Detective can be accessed via Events>Beat Detective Beat Detective is a tool for manipulating and editing audio material that is rhythmic in nature. With Beat Detective you can: Extract […]

Place your index finger on the 1st string, 2nd fret Place your middle finger on the 4th string, 4th fret Place your ring finger on the 3rd string, 4th fret Place your pinky finger on the 2nd string, 4th fretStart from the 4th string and strum each of the strings below in quick succession. Do […]

SMPTE timecode is a set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with a timecode defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in the SMPTE 12M specification. SMPTE revised the standard in 2008, turning it into a two part document: SMPTE 12M-1 and SMPTE 12M-2. Important clarifications and […]